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10 years 8 months ago - 10 years 8 months ago #2777 by kwak1261
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Are the Voyager front brakes calipers a straight swap for the normal round calipers ?
and are they any better at stopping. im looking for a quick bolt on improvement at the moment, ill organise some 4 pot nissins at a later date.

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10 years 8 months ago #2844 by kwak1261
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Wow deafening silence, ill take that as resounding NO

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10 years 8 months ago #2845 by KZQ
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I believe that they're identical, KZ to Voyager. I'll look each over this evening and let you know then.

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10 years 8 months ago - 10 years 8 months ago #2846 by kwak1261
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No eBay APP ID and/or Cert ID defined in Kunena configurationthis is what ive been looking at Bill
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they take a bigger brake pad, i was just wondering if they perform better than the round pad type.

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10 years 8 months ago #2853 by KZQ
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Hi Ian,

Thanks for making me look at the two front ends. I'd never noticed that the 85 ZN has different brakes than my 81 KZ. The disks look similar but I've not played with them enough to know if the parts will swap.
Is bigger better? Probably.

Good catch!

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10 years 8 months ago - 10 years 8 months ago #2857 by Mikez
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Hadn't noticed this post till just now lol. There's alot of differences in the diagrams when you look at the two bikes. The rotor on the zn doesn't have that center hub and the mounting bracketry looks different for starters. If you go forward with it you might want to make sure it'll mount up the same.

I wouldn't expect a noticeable increase in brake performance with just a slightly bigger pad. The brake is still a single piston design. If you stayed with your current calipers you could instead use the money to get pads with better material, have new braided steel lines fabricated, and make sure that your fluid is fresh and bled of any air. At that point there should be a noticeable improvement in brake performance :).
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